Elliot Hughes
Automation Engineer Lead
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElliot Hughes is a technical consultant in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience applying data science and machine learning to robotics, vision, text, and biomedical problems. A 2024 Data Science BS graduate from Western Washington University, he combines academic research—building large-scale network simulation tools in Rust—with practical automation and tooling roles at Keywords Studios. Elliot has progressed through research and engineering positions into leadership as an Automation Engineer Lead and now Technical Consultant, with a pragmatic focus on making coworkers’ jobs easier and systems more reliable. He specializes in designing safe, scalable simulations and automation pipelines that enable realistic testing of security scenarios like DDoS at scale. Comfortable bridging research and production, he brings both protocol-level systems understanding and applied ML curiosity to solve high-impact problems. Colleagues value his knack for turning complex simulations and research prototypes into usable infrastructure for teams.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Data Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Data Science at Western Washington UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Roosevelt High SchoolProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Teststandees/hcal_teststand_scripts
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 129 pushes in 8 months
elliot-hughes/decortication
Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 2 years 9 months
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